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Sonnets of sorrow and triumph
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850-1919)
[section]
[dedication]
A MAN R. M. W.
FORECAST
SONNETS OF SORROW
1.
[I. Praying for light, and praying all in vain]
2.
[II. I know my heart has always been devout]
3.
[III. You were so wonderful with quiet faith]
4.
[IV. My earthly friends, however occupied]
5.
[V. You understood the woman side of me]
6.
[VI. My love, my love, how often in old days]
7.
[VII. This thought I welcome only, of the train]
8.
[VIII. At last a dream—at last a dream of you!]
9.
[IX. From land to land, from coast to bloody coast]
10.
[X. My sick and suffering heart is newly stricken]
11.
[XI. “What boundless wealth of love!”—the sentence stays]
12.
[XII. If, till we met, no Maker had existed]
13.
[XIII. We scaled all heights, we probed all depths of passion]
14.
[XIV. Full many a roadway that we trod was rough]
15.
[XV. Loving you so I loved the world entire]
16.
[XVI. Oh, to wake once again with that old joy]
17.
[XVII. I who have sung so loud of God's great power]
18.
[XVIII. The wise ones tell me that my heart's wild clamour]
19.
[XIX. Full sixteen thousand million souls are here]
20.
[XX. There always was a longing in your heart]
21.
[XXI. So many mansions in our Father's house]
22.
[XXII. Wild sorrow in my bosom has been raging]
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Sonnets of sorrow and triumph
Sonnets of sorrow and triumph
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1850-1919
George H. Doran Company
New York
[1918]
Sonnets of sorrow and triumph